Dr. Alvin-William Alvarez is an Associate Professor 4 at Cavite State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He has been at the university for about 20 years and has previously served as Dean of the College. He currently chairs the university's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and is the Head of the Knowledge Management Center's (KMC) Publication and Communication Division. He has also previously served as the Philippine Key Driver of World Animal Protection, a London-based international NGO, and is currently active in the Cage-Free Hen program of the Animal Kingdom Foundation, one of the Philippines' most prominent animal welfare organizations.

Dr. Alvarez is a graduate of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Science in Animal Science from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. In his master's, he majored in Animal Physiology and minored in Environmental Science. He also has a Graduate Diploma in Bioethics as a U.P.-Fogarty Scholar from 2005 to 2006 and completed an online graduate certificate course on Animal Welfare Assessment at Michigan State University in 2010 as a scholar of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), now known as World Animal Protection.

Though not an expert video editor, he learned a thing or two about it and applied it in making his lecture videos, especially during the pandemic. He gradually improved his skills through continuous tinkering, watching lots of videos, attending webinars, and watching tutorial videos.

He believes that the use of technology especially in education is inevitable and that it is no longer a mere option, nor a luxury, but a necessity.